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Excel action Get Tables error, string is invalid for File field

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I've encountered a behaviour I don't understand with the Excel action Get Tables. I'm aware that this is a preview action, thus it's expected to raise issues.

I manually fill the Location, select the Doc Library from the UI dropdown, the brows for the file location through the UI dropdowns. This correctly grabs the file.

I need a flow that uses logic to determine which Excel file it needs from a Library, and then get that file from the Library. I created a SharePoint list that contains 3 columns, for the Location address, Doc Library name and File name.

If I then fill in the Get Tables fields with dynamic contect from this list, I get an error:

{
"status": 400,
"message": "The parameter 'file' has an invalid value '/Translation.xlsx'."
}

Translation.xlsx being the file name.

I then tested the Get tables action with Location and Doc Library manually selected, and the File field filled out through dynamic contect, which again triggered the error.

Finally I tried typing out the file name in the field, which again triggered the error.

From all this I assume that the File field is the only one that needs some kind of object type passed to it, instead of a string. My question now is if anyone understands the issue and has a workaround for this limitation, if I could Compose a string into the object type the File field expects.

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Carl Esp 15 on at

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I have exactly the same problem.

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AlanPs1 2,471 on at

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Would you mind posting a picture and some detail of your Flow and I will attempt to recreate?

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Carl Esp 15 on at

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Hi!

This is what I tried to do in Flow:
The problem is that the "file" input ("archivo") does not accept a variable.

I finally found an alternative way of doing this. Just a little trickly, but working at the end..

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MateiC 48 on at

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I am interested in the alternative solution you found, if you could post it.

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moutinhoabreu 172 on at

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I've exactly the same problem with the field "file" in all excel Actions when using dynamic data.

Every time you try to fill the file location thtough a dynamic field it returns an error:
The bold is the archive name,.
{
"status": 400,
"message": "The parameter 'file' has an invalid value '/Documentos Partilhados/IT/Templates Mbc/Mapas recapitulativos 12.xlsx'."
}

My scenario is:

Blank excel in a sharepoint location
get the content from blank excel - Sucesss
create a copy from that content. (dynamic data from previous action) - Sucesss
Get excel worksheets - Failed with error
Fill in table with data from an SQL data. - Failed with error
Does anyone was able to solve this issue ?

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Carl Esp 15 on at

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I solved it in a weird way:

When a file is created in a sharepoint library...
Create a new file in another sharepoint library (using the blob object the step 1 gives to you). This file will work as a temporal file, with a pre-fixed name that it's always the same file name.
Browse rows of a excel file. I created previously that temporally file, so this time this action works well, and will work also when the flow is executed.
Filter matrix... (to select the rows I want based on the value of one column)
For each .... Insert a new item in a sharepoint list
Something like this:

And it works

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moutinhoabreu 172 on at

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Could you show the excel action "Enumerar las filas de una tabla" aka Get rows of a table.
Not sure if i understood .

Trigger: Everytime an file is created in a specific location
Action: Create a file with dynamic content file from trigger.
Action: Get rows of a table in excel. " but the excel file was created manually"
(...)
But at the end you're not using dynamic fields on the excel action ?

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Carl Esp 15 on at

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The key is that, in step #2, you overwrite always the same file.

In step #3 you always do a query over the same excel file name, but different contents, as the step #2 overwrites that file with the one in step #1

I'm sorry if I can't explain better this solution

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moutinhoabreu 172 on at

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It seems a good workaround while this feature isn't in place.

Gracias !!!

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teqs 103 on at

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Any news on this?
{ "status": 400, "message": "The parameter 'file' has an invalid value '/xxx.xxx/yyy.zzz.xlsx'." }
Even with a 100% correct file path. I tried a lot of things to solve, but nothing works. Still no real solution for this available?

I have really problems in my solutions without getting done to use a dynamic file path. I hope for a solution. 😞

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